>-----Original Message-----
>From: Aleksandar Milivojevic [mailto:alex@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
>Sent: Monday, November 7, 2005 03:32 PM
>To: centos@xxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: Re: New Standard/Daylight time-change dates in rhel4u2 but not centos4.2?
>
>Quoting Robert <kerplop@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
>
>> Works fine in the US Central time zone:
>
>Maybe his CentOS machine is setup to use *Canadian* time zone file (in
>his case,
>it was Eastern). As a quick test, I'd suggest doing:
>
>$ diff /etc/localtime /usr/share/zoneinfo/Canada/Eastern
>$ diff /etc/localtime /usr/share/zoneinfo/US/Eastern
>
>(or "Central", if local time zone is standard central time).
>
>If he's on Canadian time, just copy the appropriate file from US subdirectory
>over /etc/localtime to get back to US time.
Many thanks, that was basically the problem. It
wasn't Canadian time, but it was the wrong
/etc/localtime. I don't know where that
/etc/localtime came from -- it's not the same
as any of the files in the /usr/share/zoneinfo
hierarchy. But putting US/Eastern in there did
the trick.
Stowe Davison
